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a-JSETSL*, XHF Hr R Al R li 31 per cent 10 012 I » A JL4L^ JL JLAb^JL j: Of Halifax County Population ]! ■WAWAVAWWWWWAWVAVWW OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROAN OKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY I in this township f VOLUME 16._ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th, 1930. NUMBER 33. $ 100 SUBSCRIBERS ARE NOW WANTED NEED FEW MORE HOTEL STOCK SUBSCRIBERS SUCCESS IS NEAR AT HAND Contract For Similar Hotel In Virginia Let Last Week A final roundup will be made this week in the hotel matter with mem bers of the Kiwanis Club committee making a last appeal for stock sub scriptions. The going is much slower this week with less than two thousand dollars necessary to close the deal and with every available source tapped with the exception of individuals who will subscribe from one to two hun dred dollars each. The committee, however, reports tha tseveral business and professional men will sign this week, while several ha\e not been seen but will be visit ed during the next few days. With any kind of response, the whole trans action will be ready for the final pa pers, forming of the corporation and collecting the necessary money from stockholders and bond companies in the very near future. The Kiwanis Club appointed a com mittee to look over the different avail able sites and get prices for same in order to recoipmtfnd to the board of directors ptkfcie, hotel company the nvo^feas^^^y^p build thcVbatel. various property owners of vacant lots in that'-section between the busi ness sections of Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary and by the end of the week will have a report on all available sites with prices on each. Contrary to various reports, no par ticular site has been selected as that will be finally done by the board of directors of the company. All the present committee is doing is to get the prices to present to that board and thus save all preliminary work when the money is raised and the Guaran tee Finance Corporation of Richmond is ready to step in, put up its share cf the money, raise the additional funds and start work on actual con struction. There has been some doubt, also as to the success of the whole propo S’tion, due to the small amount of money necessary to be raised here in comparison with the total cost of the project. This doubt subsides suddenly wtih the actual letting of the contract for the building of a similar hotel by the Finance Corporation at Colonial Heights, Va. The following appear (Continued on back page) Business Better As More Than 3,000 Crowd Local Store More than 3,000 persons entered the B. Marks department stores during the sale which opened last Friday and which was advertised with a dou ble page advertisement in The Her ald. The management was so pleased with results that it is using the same amount' of space in the newspaper this week and si receiving new ship ments of mehcrandise which proved so popular over the week-end that complete sell outs were reported by different departments. After the lull in business, the B. Marks stores are convinced of two things: business is getting better and advertising in The Herald pays when one has real values to advertise. Hammering Away In this issue of The Herald, read ers will note another full page ad vertisement of the Oak Stores, with stores in both Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary. Two weeks ago, these stores ran a full page ad. We cA attention to this because all during th eso-called hard times, the Oak Stores have been hammering along, if anything inceasing their ad vertising appropriation, and they have reaped the benefits. Manager Lamm has been well pleas ed with the results of The Herald advertising and printing. TRANSMISSION LINE Work will star t once on the construction of the half million dollar transmission line from Roanoke Rapids to Petersburg by the Virginia Electric and Power Company. With the Federal Permit for the dam still held up, due it is reported to differences of opinion between the Power Company and certain State departments, it is significant that the new trans mission line will be built from the present plant up the river to the site of the proposed dam and then across the river. This will make the line five miles longer than if it were built across the river at the present plant. The cost of the fine is ap proximately $10,000 per mile.. BIG XMAS TREE AT ROSEMARY Merchants Sponsor Com munity Tree and Gifts For Needy A huge Comunity Christmas Tree will be put up by the Rosemary Mer chants Association the first of Decem ber aqd the merchants will donate j clqghing, food, toys, and gifts for the t)1* eos*muiri<.yv it v> as de cided at a special meeting of the Association Wednesday afternoon. The plan was outlined by president Alfred N. Martin and accepted with enthusiasm by every member of the Association. Committees were ap pointed and work begun at once to bring Christmas cheer to many unfor tunate and to add to the festive spirit of the Yuletide season. The Virginia Electric and Power Co. was asked to furnish the current for the tree which will burn for the en tire month of December. Not only did the company agree to do that, but it also offered to furnish the light bulbs for the tree and wire it without cost. No need to say this offer was accepted. All persons knowing of needy fami lies are urged to report their names and address to Mr. Tomm yJenkins, chairman of the Gift Committee com posed of W. C. Williams, J. D. Mat kins and Harvey Taylor. I All the work will be done with the aid of the Asscoiated Charities and this work of the Merchants Associa tion is simply suplementary at this particular season when calls on As sociated Charities will be the greatest. | The tree committee consists of ; Frank Wilson, J. J. Wade, Lin Cobb end W. 0. Thompson. The tree will bfe located on the corner across from Shell Furniture Co., and on one night near Christmas there will be a com munity singing and a concert by the Rosemary band. The program for this night, which will be announced later, will be under the direction of H H King and Curtis Shell The collection of all gifts and dona tions will be done by the following committee: Troy Parrish, George Tay lor, Frank Joyner, C L. Grimmer, L. G. Shell, Jack Weissner, Cooper Grizzard. Please notify any member of this committee to call for your do nation. A general steering committee is composlti of A. N. Martin, Walter Crowder, L. G. Shell and F. L. Nash. The Association agreed to close all' day Thinksgiving and all Rosemary I stores belonging to the Association will close Christmas day and the day after, which is Friday. | FORMER CITIZEN DEAD H. G. Speight of Durham, a former citizen of Rosemary, died last Wed nesday momin.g. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Rosemary Baptist Church with inter ment in the Roanoke Rapids cemetery. The Junior Circle Auxiliary to Pop lar Grove 63 W. O. W. was entertained last Friday by Mrs A. V. Jones and Miss Julia Braswell. Games were played at which the older folks once again became juniors. Refreshments were ice cream ,cake and punch. GW TWO PARTIES FARED IN 152S AND 1930 ELECTIONS i CD REPUBLICAN ■I DEMOCRATIC CD DEMOCRATIC CAIN C2 REPUBLICAN ■ DEMOCRATIC. Above are shown in Black the states which the Democrats carriod for Senator, Governor or both, if botfe were voted on in 1930, the shaded states are those in which the Democrats improved their present status and /the white states are those which remained Republican. In addition the Republican candidate for Governor waa defeated by an Independent, with Democratic affiliations. A Farmer-Laborite also succeeded a Democrat as Governor of Minnesota. In the map below are shown in white the states carried by Hoover for President in 1928, with thoat ^carried by Smith shown in white. METHODIST PASTORS CHANGED Rev, Hall T o Wilming ton—Rev, C. T. Thrift To Durham Pastors of the Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary Methodist Episcopal Churches, South were replaced by ap pointments made at the Methodist conference, in session at Henderson last week. Rev. Leon M. Hall, who has been pastor of the Roanoke Rapids Method ist church for the past five years, has teen appointed as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church, at Wilmington. Rev. Hall will be replac ed here by Dr. J. W. Harrell, who j comer, from Farmville. Rev. C. T. Thrift, pastor of the Rosemary Methodist Church, has been assigned to the Branson Methodist Chur h, at Durham. Rev. D. M. Sharpe of Selma, will succeed Rev. Thrift here. Rev. W. J. Watson will be replaced on the Halifax Circuit by Rev. W. C. Wilson. Rev. Watson will take charge of the Burgaw Circuit in Pender County. Rev. J. H. Shore, of Weldon, Rev. L. B. Pattishaw of Littleton, Rev. R. R. Grant, of Seaboard, Northampton County and Rev. B. C. Thompson, of the Northampton Circuit, were return ed to their respective churches. Rev. Shore was returned for his fourth year at Weldon. Rev. L. B. Jones, of Weldon was again appointed presiding Elder for the Weldon district. Rev. G. B. Starling, of Aberdeen, will replace Rev. H. C .Ewing on the Conway Circuit. Rev. Ewing has been assigned to the Gates Circuit in j Gates County. Rev. O. C. Melton, of the Garys* burg Circuit, will be succeeded by Rev. J. T. Draper. Rev. Melton has been appointed to the Shallot Circuit, in Wilmington district. Selma, Nov. 25—Rev. D. M. Sharpe leaves this week for Rosemary where he was sent by the North Carolina (Continued on back page) “African Bridge” Game Gets Five Arrested An “African Bridge” game in which five players participated was abruptly ended late last Saturday night w hen Chief of Po lice Clifton Massey and Deputy Sheriff G. F. Gray surprised the party, by their arrival before prizes were awarded for high and low scores or refreshments were served. The game was in progress in a building located in the rear of B. Marks store. The guest list included: Robert Ashe, Frank Arthur, Obie Newell, Timothy Square and Herman Fisher, all colored. The five players were placed under arrest by the offi cers and removed to the city jail. Monday they were araigned be fore Magistrate R. L. Martin and each fined $5 and costs, on a dis orderly conduct charge. D. L. Traynham, Sr. Dies D. L. Traynham, Jr., left Wednes day for South Boston, Va., to attend the funeral of his father, who died of apoplexy in an Ashland, Ky., hotel Tuesday night. The funeral will be held Friday. One daughter and three sons survive. The elder Mr. Trayn ham visited his son here last summer. TWO GET ONE YEAR SENTENCE Grand Jury Frees Andy Gumo Of Liquor Charge Three cases of local importance were disposed of the first of the week at the November term of the Halifax Superior Court, which convened at Halifax court house Monday. The grand jury did not find suffi cient evidence to bring an indictment against Andy Gump, local tree sitting champion, who clams to have estab lished a record when he remained aloft in a tree here, recently, for the total of 1,548 hours. Andy was charg ed with violating the prohibition laws. He was arrested in Weldon on Wed nesday, November 12, by Benny Ar thur, acting chief of police of that town, after it was claimed he jumped from an automobile said to belong to a bootlegger with a jar of liquor un der his arm and ran through a corn • field. He was araigned before the ' Mayor of Weldon, and placed in the ' Halifax County jail to await the meet- ! ng of the grand jury . J. W. Galloway, alias R. B. Cook, (Continued on back page) 1930 ALL-NORTHEASTERN CONFERENCE ELEVEN (Picked By Bill Alligo d. Hera'd Sport* Writer) First Team Prs. Second Team ,i Womble, Roanoke Rapids, QB Hodges, Greenville Davis, Elizabeth City HR Barrett, Farmville Britt, Ayden HR Lewis, Tarboro Brinson, New Bern FB Credle, Washington Carrow, Washington LE McNeil, Roanoke Rapids Cox, Ayden LT Jones, Washington Reed, Elizabeth City LG Bragg, New Bern Shannonhaus, Elizabeth City C Cannon, New Bern Matthews, Roanoke Rapids RG Gautier, Washington Capt. Daughtry, New Bern RT Brown, Roanoke Rapids Scott, Elisabeth City RE Bryant, New Bern Honorable mention: Dickens, Roanoke Rapids, Johnson, Elizabeth City, Packer, New Bern, Howard,. Washington, Shell, Roanoke Rapids, Cul lom, Roanoke Rapids. Next week Bill will give his reasons for making the selections above. Watch Th eHerald Sports Page. ROLLING ALONG More progress noted this week. The old watering trough in front of Roanoke Pharmacy, with the old Town Pump, has been re moved and a new concrete curbing placed there. The Street Cleaning Depart ment has a new wagon for the garbage and trash with appropri ate Clean Up Signs on the side. Ever-Ready Cleaners erecting a new building on Jackson Street to house the complete plant, add ing an air tight storage room. Johnson’s Laundry, South Rose mary ready to install new ma chinery to take care of high grade silks and other delicate launder ing. I Mr. Etheridge of the New Bak ery opens another plant in Golds boro, modeled after his plant here. FATHER AND SON BANQUET 100 Attend Festive Oc casion at Aurelian Springs One of the most unique and enter taining features in th*> county in re cent times was the Father and Son banquet last Thursday night at Au relian Springs, sponsored by E. K. Yeach and his Young Tar Heel Farm er Club, assisted by Supt. and Mrs. V. C. Matthews and the school fa culty. One hundred fathers and sons of that great rural community gathered around the festive board, sang to gether, luaghed together and heard s°me vital questions of th eday dis cussed. Joseph Liles, a member of the club was toastmaster and gave the address of welcome. Wilbur Mohorn another member of the club gave piano selec tions thruout the banquet. In the singing the boys would sing a verse, then the fathers would sing it and then they would all join in. It was a merry occasion. Whit Neville par phrased Gov. Gardner’s Live-at-Home program with “Imma Tar Heel Born, Imma Tar Heel Bred.” The teachers served a real Halifax County Thanksgiving meal with turkey ( dressing, mashed potatoes, butter beans in pattie shells, cran berry sauce, celery, salad, rolls and coffee and apple pie with whipped cream. Leo Pittard, debater and essayist oi the club, gave a brief talk on the (Continued on back page) POLICE FIRES AT ROBBER Thief Seen At Work In Rosemarv Store In Early Morning An old overcoat and a toboggan are the only clues with wnich Rosemary police have to work in tracing down the thief who broke into the Quality Shop, at Rosemary last Thur gro Shop at Rosemary, early last- Sat urday mroning. The two pieces of clothing were found in an alley in the rear of the store after the thief had escaped through a dense fog. Enrtance was gained to the store through a rear window. Two iron bars on the outside of the window were separated, making a space large enough for a small person to crawl through. It is the theory of Rosemary po’ice that a child was lifted through the window and opened the rear door from the inside so the thief could en ter. mg a night police man at Rosemary About four o’clock Saturday morn saw a man in the Quality Shop. He fired once, the bullet going through the front door, dropping a few inches and crashing through the front of a glass show case. The man ran from the store and through the alley. The thief had selected a number of suits with accessories to match and had them laid out on counters and show cases ready to take them away when he was seen by the officer. C. C. Shell, manager* of the store, [said th ethief got little if any clothing. WELDON TO PLAY LOCALS \11-Star* To Clash At Simmons Part at 3:30 Thursday The All-Stars of Weldon and Roa noke Rapids are primed for their big Thanksgiving Day game at Simmons Park on Thursday. The game will ge tunder way at three thirty and one of the largest crowds to ever see a football game in the Twin Cities will probably be at the contest. The All-Stars are composed of the best material there is around these parts in the way of football players. The pick of the High School Yellow Jackets and the pick of the Weldon High School Tornadoes have been combined with the best local talent. The game coming right on the heels of the canceled Weldon-Roanoke Ra pids High School game is bound to cause a lot of interest, as each team is mostly composed of High School players. Weldon and Roanoke Ra pids have been red hot,rivals for many years, in fact, every since Weldon has had a team. This All-Star outfit from the lat ter city is composed of former High stars, among them “Scoopy” Grant, rated as one of the best tackles to ever perform for the Tornadoes, Lon nie Garner who played halfback in ; 1926-27 and was plenty flashy, Coach Secular of the High School, who is rated as a ball of fire in the back field, assistant Coach Moore, a good lineman, Hux, center, who played in 27-28 and is rated a good pivot man, John Partin, one of the best guards to ever don a Weldon uniform and several more who are good; along with these will be Daniels and Mason of the High School team who are rated as two of the best backs in this se.tion and six or seven more High School players. The Roanoke Rapids All-Stars will offer Jimmy Womble, all-Conference quarterback, and “Snooks” Matthews e. 11-conference guard as the main at tractions. both of this year’s Yellow Jacket squad. Strung along with these will be Clyde Mills, High School guard, Fred “Soy Bean” Mills, full back, Fleet Sullivan, halfback, “Coun try” Brown, tackle and “Scoopy” Dickens, halfback. From the town stars such men as “Governor” Gurley, Guilford College star; Dick Brown, rated as one cf the test blocking backs to ever play for Ronaoke Rapids, “Torchy” Edmond son, quarterback, rated as one of the best signal callers ever to perform for the Rapids; “Flip” Edmondson, former Stae College star; Crew, for mer High tackle; Coach Hoyle of the Yellow Jacket squad and fromer all State guard for Guilford College; Newton, end on the 1928 conference championship team; Brown local sand lot star; Bill Alligood, tackle on the ’26-27 High School team. W’ith these two teams mixing it up on Thanksgiving Day, with the Rose mary Band giving some hot music, and a large crowd whooping it up, the fans in this section will see a real game that day. A part of the pro ceeds will go to the Associated Chari ties. STARTING LINE-UP Roanoke Rapids Weldon Newton LE Gregory ' Gilley LT Trueblood Hoyle LG Cochrane Vick C Partin Matthews RG Merchant Alligood RT Lowe McNeil RE Dixon Womble QB Joyner L. Edmondson RH Moore J. Edmondson LK Hux Mills FB Grant The Junior Jackets of Rosemary will play the Weldon Junior Torna dodes at 1:30 P. M. Thanksgiving. Both teams will average around 118 pounds and have played two games. The Rosemary outfit defeating the Weldon Juniors over at Weldon 7-6, and Weldon defeated the Jackets over here by the same score. This is a playoff of the series, the deciding game and it promises to be a red-hot affair. It is very interesting to see these future High School stars per form. , Mrs. Ella Rushing and M»f Harriet Flynn, of Hallsboro, N. C., are spend ing aome time hern with relatives.
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